Students and teachers endure the hot weather inside the classrooms of Rafael Palma Elementary School in San Andres Bukid, Metro Manila on April 25, 2023.MANILA, Philippines — As part of its mandate of finding solutions to the current learning crisis, the Second Congressional Commission on Education has launched a first-of-its-kind profiling study that looks at the state of teacher education institutions in the Philippines.
Edcom 2 and the RITQ, which is based in the Philippine Normal University, the country's flagship university for teacher education, will collect data on demographics, institutional characteristics, perceptions of current teacher-educator practices and the overall status of those practices within participating institutions.
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